Originally posted by royalchickenIn the chicken/egg debate.I am a royalist.
Strictly speaking, one generation of chicken is genetically and evolutionarily different from the previous one. Thus we must take on generation (or, we can be close and take a bunch) as 'reference chickens' and say they are the only real chickens. Whatever laid the first of these was not a chicken, but something slightly different, regardless of which generation we designate. Thus the egg came before the chicken.
Lyn.